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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others he will feel that time spent in company is time lost he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
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A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!
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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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Not seeing is half-believing.
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